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Laws
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  20:45:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

ok went on a classified forum . a guy has some snakes he wants to give away . he moved with his family over to cameroon where he breeds them , his wife is pregnant and he is now working more so he wants to get rid of them . he says they are CB's and he has the papers and health certificates , come with "cities permit" (??) all i need to pay is the shipping fee and give him updates on how the snakes gettin on periodically . does this sound odd ? or should i rip his hands off? xx


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MrsA82
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  20:47:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Dont do it
Sounds a likely scam artist email


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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  20:53:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Don't do it, too good to be true
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Laws
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  20:54:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i replied to the forum add and then told him to email me , and he has and also said to give him a call on a foreign number (which i havent ) he added some pics of someone holding them . but the email was more broken english . i have mailed him aload of questions so will see what he says back to try and trick the trickster . it just sounds waaaay to good to be true!


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Lotabob
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  21:16:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You'll either recieve nothing at all or some half dead totally stressed wild snake.


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Laws
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  21:19:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
thats what i thought to be honest , and for albino and piebald royals......


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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  22:23:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi - have only just seen this thread ... when I used to go on the dark side, there was a guy (from the Cameroons too!) making the same kind of offer, and someone actually played him at his own game, emailing him and recording phone calls etc. I think they actually ended up meeting in the UK. It was a con, I'm afraid.

That was about a year ago - could even be the same guy trying his luck again.

Pity - and unless you've come across this sort of thing before it does sound like a brilliant deal. But I'd be very wary.


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Laws
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  22:28:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
bummer , i will def steer well clear , can u remember his name at all ? i have it in his email title see :) im not too gutted to be honest , just have a soft spot for albino royals hehe


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Lotabob
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  22:32:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I think I want an albino too or one of those completely patternless white ones. Pretty.


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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  22:51:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I will try and do some research - if not tonight, tomorrow - yes, be interesting to see if it's the same guy. As I remember he had a very flowery, laboured, formal writing/speaking style ...

Off to do a bit of sleuthing ...


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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  23:00:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oh dear me ... there are posts on the dark side going 4 years back, I'm afraid, about beardies, offering the same sort of deal, from people, men and women, apparently based in the Cameroons ... weird or what? I will try and trace this particular guy though. As I remember he was offering all sorts of morphs wild caught, which is why the dark side member decided to put him to the test, because his story didn't add up.



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Laws
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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  23:17:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
tomas hans , patchy english email writing , see what u can find hehe


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Posted - 10/05/2011 :  23:26:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Doesn't ring any bells but of course they'll have a zillion aliases - have been going through posts but there are a zillion posts ...I'll try and think up more subjects to search tomorrow ...


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